Description
To gain top marks, a student’s response must meet the following descriptors within the three criteria:
Knowledge Application
- Subtle and complex creation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in a persuasive text
- Discerning manipulation of the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts and invite audiences to take up positions
- Discerning use of aesthetic features and stylistic devices to achieve persuasive purposes
Organisation and Development
- Discerning use of the patterns and conventions of a persuasive text, and of the role of the speaker/signer/designer, to achieve a particular purpose
- Discerning selection and synthesis of subject matter to support perspectives
- Discerning organisation and sequencing of subject matter to achieve a particular purpose, including discerning use of cohesive devices to emphasise ideas and connect parts of a persuasive text.
Textual Features
- Discerning language choices for particular purposes
- Discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate/appropriate language structures to achieve particular purposes
- Discerning use of spoken/signed and nonverbal features (and complementary, if appropriate) to achieve particular purposes pronunciation, phrasing and pausing, audibility and clarity, volume, pace, silence facial expressions, gestures, proximity, stance, movement graphics, still and moving images, design elements, music and sound effects (if appropriate)
